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Summary of White House Big Data Privacy Report: 'Give Feds More Power, Please'
Reason Dot Com ^ | May 02, 2014 16:05GMT | Scott Shackford

Posted on 05/02/2014 10:56:18 AM PDT by Up Yours Marxists

In January, the Obama administration put together a "working group" to analyze how huge swaths of Americans' data are being gathered and stored and what sort of privacy issues need to be addressed. The group's report was just released this week.

Before you ask: No, it's not about the National Security Agency (NSA) sweeping up huge amounts of metadata from phone and online communications by Americans, even though that’s the big data conversation many Americans want to have right now. Such data gathering is vaguely mentioned in the full report, but primarily the 85-page study (pdf) is about consumer privacy in the private tech sector and citizen privacy in other aspects of government data collection. So, pretty much everything except NSA.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: consumerprivacy; datamining; nsa; obama; privacy; privacyreport; socialmedia; tech; whitehouse
Oh boy, more power. "I'm givin' her all she got captain."
1 posted on 05/02/2014 10:56:18 AM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Exactly. The statists are saying that they will protect privacy by violating it.


2 posted on 05/02/2014 10:59:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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Exactly. The statists are saying that they will protect privacy by violating it.

I find it funny how privacy is sacrosanct when it comes to allowing abortions, but everywhere else it is an unreasonable expectation or otherwise subject to limitation.

3 posted on 05/02/2014 11:05:34 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Up Yours Marxists; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

Getting caught up, bear with me...

4 posted on 05/04/2014 7:22:36 AM PDT by null and void ( They don't think think they are above the law. They think they are the law.)
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heck they already know everything about me....but I don’t like that the feds keep trying to find out about my neighbors


5 posted on 05/04/2014 11:04:35 AM PDT by Nifster
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